Road Trips
Plan a cruise or an extended road trip, or plan a family reunion. On this page, you will find ideas for road trips, cruises, and ways to plan your own extended trip on a map. If staying in touch is important to you, the Spot device can track you on your trips. When you're going out, e-mail us for ideas and suggestions on things to do. Put our phone# in your speed-dial and call us. We are happy to help.
If you have a laptop with you, or you are at a public computer, pinpoint your current trip location on a map automatically-Click: Show your map location (A small applet will be installed) On the map, you can locate nearby stores and restaurants. As a service for Seniors, if you are unfamiliar with the area, you are welcome to ask us for ideas and suggestions, including turn-by-turn driving directions. ~ Fedex Kinko's, coffee cafes, public libraries, and hotels are places where computers are available for public use. ~ |
If you find it more convenient, there is a driving directions request form below that you may fill out and send to us.
Set up
trip notification (with
911) to stay in touch with family and friends in realtime while you are traveling - without making extra calls from your cell phone. It is a cool, inobtrusive way of sharing your trip with loved ones back at home.
Fun things to see and do along the way! >> Create your own travel map with driving directions. Find the nearest dining places, or stores selling your favorite item. Look for hotels, concerts, walks, etc. at your destination, check weather or bus routes. |
Driving Directions Request Form
Receive customized driving directions with maps! Pefect for family reunions!
Tours, urban walks, readings, eateries, community gardens, camping, artshops and other points of interest will be included on the maps.
In the form below, tell us where you want to go...
The date of departure? From? To?
Want trip notificaton and check-in?
Date of return? Will you be shopping? Eating out?
Share trip details with others?
Driving Directions Request Form |
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After receiving your request, we will send you detailed driving directions with maps via
postal delivery, via
Presto, or regular e-mail, and our contact phone number for help. If you are out of cell phone range, we can relay your messages to family and friends back at home. If you are taking the bus, ask us for bus route information.
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Driving Directions: The Redmond Riverwalk
Most people have heard of the Promenade in San Antonio, Texas. Not many know of this gem of a Riverwalk right in Redmond, Wa., home of Microsoft. Imagine an easy 2-mile walk or bicycle ride along a lazy river, plenty of rustic wildlife, 30 minutes from Seattle. Then shop at the classy Redmond Town Center and take in a movie or two. Tour the
Microsoft Art Collection, open to the public one Thursday each month.
Click on the yellow movie icon in the map below, and select "Get Directions" to here.
Driving Directions: Silver Cloud Inn, Seattle, Wa to the Preston-Snoqualmie Trail
This 30-mile drive takes about 40 minutes from Seattle. From I-90, get off at Exit 22 (Preston/Fall City) and proceed to Preston and pick up the Preston-Fall City Road. Continue about 3 miles and turn right onto Lake Alice Road. About a mile down this road is the trailhead for
Preston-Snoqualmie Trail. The trail from here is 1.8 miles to the Snoqualmie Falls lookout.
Elevation: 400 feet.
Bicycles okay. Easy, pleasant walk on a paved road.
Click on the above link for driving directions. If you are lucky, you can catch a deer on the paved trail in the summer.
At the end of the walk is the lookout with Snoqualmie Falls in view 3 miles away. The Snoqualmie Ridge is in the background.
Driving Directions: Graham, Wa to La Push, Wa
A great way to experience the Pacific Ocean! This trip is 293 miles, 4 hours 30 minutes by car. Visit the remote Pacific Coast on the Puget Sound near the western edge of the Olympic National Park. Click on {Ter} to display a terrain map.
About 10 miles east of La Push is Forks, Wa. This town is made famous by the latest craze "vampire tourism" based on the book "Twilight" by Stephanie Meyer. A Twlight convention is planned for June 26, 2009.
Click on
{View Larger Map} above to see
detailed driving directions alongside a larger road map with points of interests. Consider
trip notification and check-in on your extended trips. We can relay messages to your family and friends back at home if you are out of cell phone range.